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Where (1) a judge severed a defendant’s case from his codefendant’s and (2) the defendant has filed a petition seeking relief from an order vacating a reassignment of his case to a different judge, the petition must be denied, as the judge who severed the cases never recused himself.

Where plaintiff home purchasers filed a G.L.c. 211, §3 petition asking a single justice to remove the trial judge from the underlying proceeding, the single justice did not err in denying the petition on the ground that the plaintiffs had adequate alternative remedies.